Details: Yitzhak Weizman opens the book with a forceful argument about the value of Holocaust testimonies and memoirs for the education of new generations of Jews and Gentiles in Israel and elsewhere. After describing his Jewish roots and family life in Gombin, a town in central Poland, he offers vivid details about the plight of the Jewish community in the Gombin ghetto until his deportation to the forced labor camp in Konin. He then goes on to provide a sober, realistic account of his experiences, feelings and thoughts as he was transferred to other concentration and forced labor camps including Andrzejow, Jedrzejow, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Stutthof, Hailfingen, Dautmergen and Dachau. Through his reflections on the horrors of the camps, Yitzhak Weizman conveys a sense of the profound significance of survival as an act of resistance. For contemporary readers, another aspect of the value of his testimony lies in the detailed description of conditions after the war, including the underground effort to bring survivors to Mandatory Palestine and the struggles of the new immigrants to reconstruct their lives in Israel. Alternate names: Gąbin [Polish], Gombin [Yiddish, German, Russian], Gambin Gombin, Poland is located at 52°24’ N 19°44’ E and 55 miles W of Warszawa   Nearby Jewish Communities: Sanniki 7 miles SE Plock 10 miles N Gostynin 11 miles WNW Kiernozia 11 miles SSE Żychlin 11 miles SSW Bodzanow 14 miles ENE Bielsk 19 miles N Kutno 19 miles SW Sobota 20 miles S Wyszogrod 20 miles E

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